A vacuum cleaner salesman becomes a spy by accident and a liar by design.
Jim Wormold lives quietly in pre-revolutionary Havana, selling vacuum cleaners to customers who can scarcely afford them. When a British intelligence officer offers him money to report on local activity, Wormold agrees. His daughters expenses demand it.
Lacking real information, he invents it. Diagrams of military installations are drawn from appliance parts. Agents are imagined. Reports are filed. London believes every word.
What begins as improvisation gathers consequence. As his fabrications circulate through intelligence channels, other parties begin to act on them. In a city already thick with tension, fiction proves capable of generating its own danger.
Greenes espionage novel balances satire with unease, exposing how easily authority can be deceived and how quickly deception can turn fatal.
British Intelligence being sent up something rotten Daily Telegraph
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As comical, satirical, atmospherical an "entertainment" as he has given us * Daily Telegraph * He had a sharp nose for trouble and injustice. In Our Man In Havana - a witty send-up of an agent's life - it was Cuba before Castro * Financial Times * Nobody should be anywhere near power who hasn't read (or seen the film of) Our Man in Havana, a powerful satire on the silly world of spying by a man who had experienced it * Mail on Sunday * Graham Greene captured a pre-Castro Cuba of daiquiris and decadence... hilarious * Independent * British Intelligence being sent up something rotten * Daily Telegraph, 20 Best Spy Novels of All Time * The human story is warm and the satire made me laugh out loud -- Simon Shepherd * Daily Express *
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'No serious writer of this century has more thoroughly invaded and shaped the public imagination than did Graham Greene' Time
Graham Greene was born in 1904. He worked as a journalist and critic, and in 1940 became literary editor of the Spectator. He was later employed by the Foreign Office. As well as his many novels, Graham Greene wrote several collections of short stories, four travel books, six plays, three books of autobiography, two of biography and four books for children. He also wrote hundreds of essays, and film and book reviews. Graham Greene was a member of the Order of Merit and a Companion of Honour. He died in April 1991. Christopher Hitchens was an English-born American author, journalist and literary critic. He was a columnist at Vanity Fair, The Atlantic, World Affairs, The Nation, Slate, Free Inquiry, and a variety of other media in a career that spanned more than four decades and made him a prominent public intellectual, and a staple of talk shows and lecture circuits. His books include The Monarchy; Blood, Class, and Nostalgia; No One Left to Lie Toand God Is Not Great. He died in 2011.
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